[R] Any R packages support conversion from PDF to XLS ?

[Tom Li]

> Pretty much nothing can convert arbitrary PDF files to unicode.  It 
> depends a 
> lot on what is in the PDF to begin with -- properly encoded text or just 
> bitmapped images, for example.   
> I would recommend you search around to see whether  there's a related 
> archive in a different format.


If that isn't available, one could use tabula[1] to extract tables from 
pdfs as csv.

HTH

[1] http://tabula.nerdpower.org